Wolf totem and the post-Mao utopian : a Chinese perspective on contemporary western scholarship / !c by Li Xiaojiang ; translated by Edward Mansfield Gunn, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Xiaojiang, 1951- author.

Series:

East and West (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 3.

East and West : culture, diplomacy and interactions ; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jiang, Rong, 1946 April- Lang tu teng.

Jiang, Rong.

Physical Description:

xviii, 574 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

Wolf Totem' and the Post-Mao Utopian' by Li Xiaojiang explores the controversial best-selling novel by the political economist Jiang Rong as an allegory of utopia through discussion of an encyclopaedic range of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that offer thinking on topics introduced in the novel. In promoting the significance of utopian thought, Li stresses that the term for her study, ?post-utopian criticism,? is not the same as anti-utopian criticism, but an analytical approach to criticism in order to addresses the shortcomings of postmodern and postcolonial theories applied to contemporary China, and to open up interpretive space for the specific historical experience of its people and its utopian ideals.

ISBN:

9004276726

9789004276727

OCLC:

1015845664

Publisher Number:

99976592644